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This is the beat. . . this is the singing tone. . . th is is the pu Ise-sti rri ng sensation that makes TODAY come ALIVE. . . The very CONTEMPORARY blend of . . . DOC SEVERINSEN AND HIS SWINGING, SING- ING FRIENDS AVAILABLE IN STEREO AND MONAURAL RECORDS AND 4-TRACK TAPE Write for our new, full color brochure of all Command releases. . . it's FREE! World Leader in Recorded Sound RECORDS A subsidiary of ABC RECORDS (A subsidiary of American Broadcasting Companies, Inc.) 1330 Ave. of the Americas, N. Y.. N. Y. 10019 finally threw off the Chinese yoke, in the tenth century. Although their cul- ture and administration were by then almost entirely ChInese, and although they generally paid token tribute to China, the Vietnamese had to with- stand no fewer than four subsequent Chinese invasions, the last in the eight- eenth century. Partly because of thIs pressure from the north, the Viet- namese kept pushing southward. Dur- ing our Middle Ages and a bit later, they gradually conquered and occupied the state of Champa, with its rich, In- dian-inspIred culture, which originally encompassed what is now the southern part of North Vietnam and the northern part of South Vietnam, with its capital at Da Nang, the present Marine base. But this was no more than a first step in the VIetnamese occupa- tion of the richest and most heavily populated part of modern South Vietnam; a good deal of what is now referred to as "the delta" was wrested from Cambodia by the Viet- namese, under the Emperor Gla Long, as late as the opening of the nineteenth century. The stages of this Vietnamese expansion, plus the way the French ex- ploited the results, largely explain the northern-central-southern regionalism that is still a powerful factor in South Vietnamese politics. As for Sun Yat-sen's blush, it had a curious explanation. Sun was a Can- tonese. Originally, the Cantonese were the leading group of the Hundred Yüeh. But, unlike the South Viets, the Cantonese eventually surrendered to the remorseless pressure of the Chi- nese and became completely Sinified. The Cantonese stil] commemorate the date of their final Sinification by calling themselves "men of T'ang"-the great dvnasty that reigned from the seventh to the tenth century. But to this day the Vietnamese look down on the Can- tonese dS people who gave in, whereas they, the Vietnalnese, never gave in. Sun Yat-sen blushed, Douglas Pike re- marks, because it is entirely possible for an Asian to be shamed by a decision that his ancestors took a great many hundred years ago-in this case, the decision to give in, maliciously con- trasted by Inukai with the refusal of the V . " 1 " .. Ietnamese saves to gIve In. Pike's "Viet Cong" is a big plum pudding of a book in which there is something for almost everyone. Its subtitle is "The Organization and Techniques of the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam," which means that it covers a huge subject almost wholly unfamiliar to average L\meri- cans, and one that all of us need to know more about. The author has served for a considerable period in the United States establishment in Saigon. This service was, In fact, essentIal, for if Pike had not had some sort of officIal status he could never have gained access to the large numbers of captured docu- ments that help to give his book solidity, nor could he have managed to interro- gate the numerous Vietcong defectors whose testimony gives his hook atmos- phere. But despite his government serv- ice, Pike hds succeeded in writing a book in which he treats the United States com- mItment in Vietnam not as a good and nec- essary thing or a bad and unwise thing but simply as another da- tum. I need hardly add that Pike's calm, strict- ly factual approach is a major ingredi- ent of his book's value. The book is not wholly satisfactory for two quite different reasons. In the first place, like most plum puddings, it is not we!] organized. For example, one of the later chapters includes a long, extensively documented passage on the Vietcong attitude toward the neutrali- zation of Vietnam as proposed by Gen- eral de Gaulle and Prince Sihanouk. All sorts of useful hut discordant facts are successively presented in it, yet the dis- cords are nowhere fully resolved, and one is therefore not prepared for Pike's conclusion: "In sum, there is no evi- dence to' indicate that the Communists themselves [ever] believed in the pros- pect of a 'neutral' Vietnam in the Cam- bodian sense. And after the 1960-1961 period, few Vietnamese on either side, with the possible exception of a few Buddhist leaders in the South, enter- tained the idea seriously. " You have to go back and reread the whole section with minute care to find the main bas 1 s of this summing up. Pike laconically points out that "decommunizing North Vietnam" is the obvious prerequisite of any genuine neutralization of the whole of Vietnam, and then adds that this de- communizing of the North has always been quite unthinkable. The second reason Pike's book is less than satisfactory is that his interests are primarily political and organiza- tIonal, and I believe that he portrays the Vietcong too much as a political movement, with not enough emphasIs on its military side. He states, correct- ly, that in the early years of the Na- tional Liberation Front there were C'.Þ."I n